Mistborn · Character
Daal
Also known as Admiral Daal, Honored ambassador, Ambassador Daal
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 4 · Ch. 10
Daal is a supporting character in Mistborn (Book 4).
- Gender
- male
- Age
- middle-aged
- First appears
- Book 4 · Ch. 10
- Books
- 2
Daal is a Malwish leader and ambassador, a short, primly postured man whose intricate wooden mask, inlaid with metals around the eyes, renders him perpetually unreadable. Revered among the Malwish Hosts for his wartime successes, he arrives in Elendel as a diplomat whose mission carries an implicit threat, insisting that the Bands of Mourning must be returned to his people and that any Basin use of them would be an act of aggression. As the crisis peaks, the composed negotiator abandons his formal role, taking the Bands' case and fleeing the city alongside the senators.
Description
A shorter man with prim and sharp posture stands wearing an intricate wooden mask carved and inlaid with metals around the eyes or painted with red lines. His eyes peek out through the metal-encrusted holes in the mask, leaving his expression unreadable. The mask dominates his appearance as the central visual feature across all encounters. Daal is a middle-aged, relatively short man whose face is concealed behind an intricate wooden mask. The mask is sharp in shape, painted bloodred with red lines, and inlaid with six different metals around the eyes. He wears formal Malwish ambassadorial attire and holds himself with prim, precise posture, his expression impossible to read beneath the mask.
Connections
Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals
Marasi Colmspolitical observer
Marasi reads Daal's reputation among the Hosts as a sign of wartime success, senses the threat behind his mission, and investigates his possible connections to the Set.
Steris Ladriannegotiating counterpart
Steris negotiates with Daal over the Bands of Mourning but suspects he prepared his offer in advance to exploit the crisis.
Waxillium Ladriandiplomatic counterpart
Wax faces Daal as a Basin senator in increasingly tense diplomatic exchanges over trade, military power, and the Bands of Mourning.
- A
Adawathwynpolitical counterpart
Adawathwyn wants the Bands used to defend the Basin, while Daal insists they must revert to the Malwish.
- AN
Allik Neverfarpolitical subordinate
Allik, a former airman, recognizes Daal as a highly respected Malwish leader whose arrival signals a harder Malwish stance.
- GV
Governor Varlancediplomatic counterpart
Daal represents Malwish interests before the governor and warns that using the Bands would breach their peoples' agreement.
Story so far
BOOK 4The Lost Metal (The Mistborn Saga)
- Appears as a short, sharply postured figure in an intricate metal-inlaid wooden mask
- His masked, unreadable expression defines every encounter with him
BOOK 7The Lost Metal
- Arrives as the Malwish ambassador, recognized by Allik as a powerful and respected political figure
- Negotiates with Wax, Steris, and Governor Varlance over trade, military power, and the Bands of Mourning
- Warns that Basin use of the Bands would breach the agreement with the Malwish and be treated as aggression
- Becomes the subject of Marasi's investigation into possible ties with the Set
- Takes the Bands' case and flees the city alongside the senators as the crisis peaks
Appearances
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